8 Oct 2017 3:05 pm
A what is being done about that?Huey » 08 Oct 2017 2:51 pm » wrote:Federal law already states if you by a gu. In a state other than your own the sale must go thru an FFL In your own state.
Federal firearms license (FFL) holders are the only persons who can legally handle gun sales across state lines. This means that the merchant you're buying from must have an FFL, and that seller must, we repeat, must, ship the weapon directly to an FFL holder in your state
https://www.durysguns.com/news/gun-tran ... t-of-state
https://www.durysguns.com/news/gun-tran ... t-of-state
So that law is being broken
According to the FBI, roughly 60% of guns used in crimes in Illinois were from out of state.
The overwhelming number of those guns flow into Illinois from states that have much less restrictive gun laws.
Most of those out of state guns came from Indiana, which is next to Illinois.
Second place goes to Mississippi and third place goes to Wisconsin.
The FBI data suggests that there’s lots of trafficking of guns within Illinois but point out that it’s very difficult to trace those guns once they get into the state because Illinois does not require registration of guns, does not license or regulate gun dealers, doesn’t limit how many guns can be sold at one time and does not require background searches on gun sales that are not conducted at a gun show.
Indiana has really lax gun laws.
Gun dealers are required to perform a very basic background search while a vendor can sell their “private collection” to anyone at a gun show without any background search whatsoever.
So someone can buy an assault rifle at a Crown Point Indiana gun show without any background search, and drive an hour into Chicago, where assault rifles are banned.
A 2015 study by the University of Chicago suggested that only 11% of guns involved in crimes in Chicago were purchased through federally licensed gun dealers, which require background searches.
In 2014 the Chicago Police reported that roughly 60% of guns used and recovered from crime scenes between 2009 and 2013 were purchased outside of Illinois.
Exact figures are hard to pin down but it is clear that the vast majority of guns making their way to the streets of Chicago are coming from outside of Illinois.
The significance of these figures is that unless national standards are imposed, there’s no law or amount of regulation in Illinois that is going to stop guns from making their way into Chicago and being used in shootings and murders.
Instead of gun rights activists pointing to Illinois strict gun laws to argue that they don’t work, they should point to states that have lax gun laws as an example of why such stricter laws are needed to stop, or at least slow down, the rising numbers of shootings and murders in Chicago.
https://www.chicagocriminallawyerblog.n ... icago.html